Bob gave a talk at Amsterdam’s Nerd Nite on how he studies everyday life in the streets of premodern Amsterdam. He discusses the challenges involved but also the wonderful results that have seen the light. This talk is now freely available via youtube.
Bob, local Dutchman, unravels the past of the common folk in pre-industrial Amsterdam. But this turns out to be more difficult than one would expect...
The global historian Lisa Hellman reflects on the ‘Gender and the Global City’ session at the ESSHC 2018
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At UvA we teach courses that are directly related to our project. Last year a group of MA and RMA students studied how women and men took control of the streets of pre-industrial Amsterdam. The students worked towards a guided tour of Amsterdam’s gendered streets as their final assessment. During the course they learned how to assess gender dynamics in the street through observation, by looking at the built environment, and by studying primary materials such as tax records, drawings, songs and criminal records. For a quick peak at some of the materials from the course have a look here, and stay tuned for a short video of the students final presentations: Sex & the City in early modern Amsterdam: a walking tour. This MA course will run again in 2017/2018: check this if you’re interested!
